Here is some scientific research with some tantalizing implications for politics.

[Moonbeam]

Then can you PM me the evidence? You have made a claim, and I did look for it and could not find anything peer reviewed. If you have that information I would love to look at it. As for now, you are telling me its super easy to find, and are spending time to tell me that, but are not willing to spend time giving me a link or something else easy. Why should I believe what you have to say if you don't provide evidence?

I say that you are wrong and its easy to find if you look. The fact that you do not look for it shows that you know you are wrong and do not want to hurt your ego.

See, if we both do that, then nobody benefits.

I don't need to benefit, you do. What part of if I give them to you without any effort or interest on your own part to acquire knowledge, you are just going to interpret my willingness as an admission that my position is weak and I need to go to the web for external support. You are asking me for spare change, not realizing that I know you are going to spend it on booze and I am a tough love practitioner. But if you want to demand that I perform a disservice to you at least do twenty pushups, eat a healthy sandwich and try this:

http://2012election.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=004818

 

[realibrad]

I don't need to benefit, you do. What part of if I give them to you without any effort or interest on your own part to acquire knowledge, you are just going to interpret my willingness as an admission that my position is weak and I need to go to the web for external support. You are asking me for spare change, not realizing that I know you are going to spend it on booze and I am a tough love practitioner. But if you want to demand that I perform a disservice to you at least do twenty pushups, eat a healthy sandwich and try this:

http://2012election.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=004818

So the only one I found on your list that said there was a difference in structure was

Political Orientations Are Correlated
with Brain Structure in Young Adults

http://2012election.procon.org/sourcefiles/Kanai_Political_Orientations.pdf

Although these conceptual links facilitate interpretations of the relationship between the brain structures and political orientation, our findings reflect a cross-sectional study of political attitudes and brain structure in a demographically relatively homogenous population of young adults. Therefore, the causal nature of such a relationship cannot be determined. Specifically, it requires a longitudinal study to determine whether the changes in brain structure that we observed lead to changes in political behavior or whether political attitudes and behavior instead result in changes of brain structure.

Do you have any others that talk about the structure of the brain? Or were you saying its not the structure but how people think?

 

[Darwin333]

Speaking of Medicinal weed. The state of MN finally passed an amendment to allow its use. Of course we pick the most regulated and oppressive way to administer it. It has to be in pill form and the state govt picks a single supplier. Last night watching the news there is a push to expand its application to other diseases. The states response was "other means of pain control or issues have to be proved to not work before medicinal weed is allowed". In other words the state is dictating people have to try opioids or prescription medicines before weed. Seriously? This is how fucked our govts view of weed has been for decades. They would rather people be on opioids than weed. /faceplam

Especially ironic considering how hard most states are making it to get opiods to keep people from abusing them which screws over sick people in extreme pain more than it prevents junkies from getting them. In LA they passed a law that they can't even write refills or call in hydrocodone, you have to pick up a paper script for every single RX you get filled. You can still find them just as easy on the street but the people that really need it have to jump through retarded hoops.

 

[Darwin333]

Is it Tylenol, or the chronic over-use of Tylenol?

I read that Tylenol wouldn't ever get FDA approval today.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Especially ironic considering how hard most states are making it to get opiods to keep people from abusing them which screws over sick people in extreme pain more than it prevents junkies from getting them. In LA they passed a law that they can't even write refills or call in hydrocodone, you have to pick up a paper script for every single RX you get filled. You can still find them just as easy on the street but the people that really need it have to jump through retarded hoops.

Yup and a lot of folks that genuinely need that pain relief cannot move around to get to the pharmacy. It is beyond stupid.